Kalshi turns three years old today, and the past year has been a rollercoaster for the exchange: Previously we took a looked at Kalshi for its one-year and two-year anniversaries, and now we’re again taking a look at the exchange’s growth since we last checked in. Top markets by trading volume Previously limited to markets […]
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There are two upcoming events related to the PredictIt (April 18th) and Kalshi (May 30th) lawsuits against the CFTC: (1) Clarke v. CFTC webinar The Federalist Society is hosting a webinar featuring the attorney representing the plaintiffs in the PredictIt lawsuit, as well as Aristotle’s General Counsel. Discussing Clarke v. CFTC: The Case of PredictIt
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Last Update: 11/15/2024 On November 1, 2023, Kalshi sued the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for rejecting its proposed contracts for partisan control of Congress. Below is a timeline of Kalshi’s attempts to offer election markets with respective media coverage followed by the case docket. Click on the document number to view a PDF
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Kalshi is the first federally regulated exchange for event contracts. Incorporated as a Delaware LLC on December 10, 2019, it applied for Designated Contract Market (DCM) status to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a few weeks later on December 27th. Their application was approved almost one year later on November 3, 2020, and Kalshi
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Continuing the last article’s theme of ‘too good to be true,’ we now turn our attention to LK-99. LK-99 is a compound that researchers in South Korea claimed could serve as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. Superconductors are materials that, when cooled to a “critical temperature,” conduct electricity without energy loss. The most common use of
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